Background
Elizondo, Sergio Danilo was born on April 29, 1930 in El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico. Came to the United States, 1950. Son of Cristino Santiago and Feliciana (López) Elizondo.
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Muerte En Una Estrella
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Perros y Antiperros Una Epica Chicana
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Suruma (Spanish Edition)
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Suruma ese lugar soleado, seco y polvoriento del sur de los Estados Unidos, tierra de chicanos que caminan por las calles con la cabeza tapada con gorras de béisbol, como esperando a que los descubra un "scout" de los Yankees a los Dodgers. Suruma, ese lugar mitico, espíritu generador de esta narrativa, la mejor de Elizondo, creo, donde convergen las esencias de tres ninas encantadoras descritas, como en pocos textos, por ojo clínico del autor, tata abuelo. Suruma, origen de los surumatos ex-marines veteranos de Viet Nam, chotas pendejones, desposeídos de su propia lengua, historia y geografía por un sistema decimador, como Rito, quien permanece sentado, poseído de la voz del viejo narrador primera persona quien se ha metido a reeducarlo. Suruma. Allí conocemos la circunstancia de Stasek, el inmigrante polaco y su familia, de los mexicanos que trabajan el campo, de Mutti, la anciana joven alemana y de la ternura de su muerte, de Horton el "dogface" gabacho/pendejo con iniciativa y de sus peripecias y Don Jacobo Ha Levi y su fiel y bondadosa rebbetzin. Suruma. Desde ese polo rememorado Elizondo sostiene un aliento narrativo casi inagotable plagado de risa, de critica acerba al monstruo devorador y lo hace con un verdadero don para observar. Vierte en palabras nuestra intimidad consabida pero lo hace si se escribiera por primera vez.
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Muerte En Una Estrella / Shooting Star (Spanish Edition) by Sergio D. Elizondo (2013) Paperback
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Perros Y Antiperros; Una Epica Chicana. English Translation, Gustavo Segade
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Slender book of poetry. Left hand page in Spanish. English translation by Gustavo Segade on right hand pages.Lovely little book.
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Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star
(In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Serg...)
In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Óscar Balboa and Valentín Rodríguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two “strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad” are the novel’s principal voices as they lie dying. In other chapters, Óscar remembers traveling north with his parents as a young boy to pick crops and joining farm workers’ protest marches. Songs of all types—symphonic, orchestral and protest—infuse the narrative: “We’ll summon the spirit of a poet so that he can adapt our people’s story through time and set it to music.” Elizondo’s short and tragic novel bears witness to la raza’s struggles for rights, whether in the fields, the work place or on college campuses. Originally published in Spanish and now available for the first time in English, this classic of Mexican-American literature provides insight into the Chicano civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star is a profoundly disturbing and moving denunciation of bigotry and discrimination.
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Muerte En Una Estrella / Shooting Star (Spanish Edition)
(In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Serg...)
In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Oscar Balboa and Valentin Rodriguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two "strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad" are the novel's principal voices as they lie dying. In other chapters, Oscar remembers traveling north with his parents as a young boy to pick crops and joining farm workers' protest marches. Songs of all types symphonic, orchestral and protest infuse the narrative: "We'll summon the spirit of a poet so that he can adapt our people's story through time and set it to music." Elizondo's short and tragic novel bears witness to la raza's struggles for rights, whether in the fields, the work place or on college campuses. Originally published in Spanish and now available for the first time in English, this classic of Mexican-American literature provides insight into the Chicano civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star is a profoundly disturbing and moving denunciation of bigotry and discrimination.
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Sergio Danilo Elizondo
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, University Findlay, 1958. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1964.
Career
Assistant professor Spanish University Texas, Austin, 1963-1968. Associate professor Spanish California State University, San Bernardino, 1968-1971. Dean College Ethnic Studies Western Washington University, Bellingham, 1971-1972.
Professor Spanish New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 1972-1975. Distinguished visiting professor Mexican-American studies San Diego State University, 1972-1990. Chair department foreign languages New Mexico State University, 1972-1975.
Achievements
Works
book
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Suruma (Spanish Edition)
(Suruma ese lugar soleado, seco y polvoriento del sur de l...)
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Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star
(In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Serg...)
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Muerte En Una Estrella / Shooting Star (Spanish Edition)
(In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Serg...)
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Perros Y Antiperros; Una Epica Chicana. English Translation, Gustavo Segade
(Slender book of poetry. Left hand page in Spanish. Englis...)
- Muerte En Una Estrella
- Perros y Antiperros Una Epica Chicana
- Muerte En Una Estrella / Shooting Star (Spanish Edition) by Sergio D. Elizondo (2013) Paperback
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Suruma (Spanish Edition)
Membership
Vice president American G.I. Forum, Austin, Texas, since 1966. County vice president Political Association Spanish Speaking Organisation, Austin, 1967-1968. Chairman Border States University.Consortium Latin America, Las Cruces, 1978-1981.
With United States Army, 1954-1956. Member American Civil Liberties Union, American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese.
Interests
Connections
Married Sharon J. Mowrey, June 8, 1958 (divorced 1971). Children: Even D., Sean S.
Education
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1958
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1961
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1964
Career
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1963 - 1968
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1968 - 1971
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1971 - 1972
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1972 - 1975